Affies to battle Rhenish for the 2024 All Girls Festival title

Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria, and Rhenish Girls’ High School will meet in the final of the All Girls Festival, on Saturday morning, in Potchefstroom. Both teams were on form on Friday.

Red-hot Rhenish hit the field and breezed past Wynberg in the last eight, rolling to a 5-0 win. Then, they slipped past Oranje in the semi-finals, winning 3-1 in a penalty shootout, after the teams had finished regulation time tied at 0-0.

Rhenish built up momentum from Thursday, which included a massive 13-0 opening victory over Jeppe High School for Girls, followed by a 1-1 draw with their Stellenbosch rivals, HMS Bloemhof. They added two more wins, without conceding a goal, defeating Danville Park Girls’ High School 2-0 and Durban Girls’ High 1-0.

With three wins and a draw, and with 11 points in the bag, they topped Pool B.

Affies, meanwhile, fought tooth and nail to overcome Gqeberha’s Collegiate Girls’ High School 2-0 from the penalty spot, after a goalless draw, and then held off Paarl Girls’ High, securing a hard-fought 1-0 victory to book their place in the tournament decider.

The 2023 finalist, Eunice, will face HMS Bloemhof for fifth place on Saturday. This comes after a they scored a 1-0 win over Wynberg on Friday, before going down 0-2 to their Bloemfontein rivals, Oranje.

Despite the bump in the road on day two, the soon-to-be former champions enjoyed a fair run on the opening day, when they won three matches, which included a big 9-0 win over the hosts, The High School for Girls, Potchefstroom, a tight 1-0 victory over Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School, and a 2-0 win over St Michael’s, also of Bloemfontein. They were, however, beaten 1-0 by Collegiate.

The losing semi-finalists, Paarl Girls’ High and Oranje will face off for third place on Saturday at 09:20 on the NWU Astro A.

FRIDAY RESULTS

Oranje 2-0 Eunice
Rhenish (3) 0-0 (1) Oranje
Collegiate (1) 0-0 (2) Affies
Paarl 0-1 Affies
Rustenburg Girls’ 3-0 St Michael’s
Danville (2) 0-0 (0) Rustenburg
High School for Girls, Potchefstroom 0-2 Pretoria Girls
Jeppe HSG 0-1 High School for Girls, Potchefstroom
Pretoria Girls 3-0 Jeppe HSG
Clarendon (2) 0-0 (0) La Rochelle
Durban Girls’ High 1-2 Clarendon
Durban Girls’ High 1-0 Pietermaritzburg GHS
La Rochelle (2) 0-0 (1) Pietermaritzburg GHS
Pietermaritzburg GHS (0) 0-0 (1) St Michael’s
Rhenish 5-0 Wynberg
HMS Bloemhof 0 -2 Paarl Girls’ High
Wynberg 0-1 Eunice
HMS Bloemhof 2-0 Collegiate
Parktown 0-1 Danville
Parktown (3) 0-0 (2) Michael’s

SATURDAY FIXTURES

08:00 – Collegiate GHS vs Wynberg Girls’ High; 08:00 – Clarendon vs Danville Park;  08:40 – HMS Bloemhof vs Eunice; 08:40 – Durban Girls’ High v Parktown HSG; 08:40 – Paarl Girl’ High v Oranje; 09:20 – La Rochelle vs Rustenburg; 10:00 – Affies vs Rhenish.

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Vuyo Ndudane is a Sport Management and Journalism graduate from the Vaal University of Technology and the University of South Africa. She has experience as a content producer for Mhlobo Wenene FM sport show, currently working as a Sport Multimedia Controller, Researcher and multiple sport freelance writer under the wings of Sport Journalist. She admires Kyle Walker and Vinicius Jnr. She's just a lover of sport and trying to change the perception of Women's Sport in South Africa - one article a time.

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